Questions tagged [ldap]
Lightweight Directory Access Protocol (LDAP) is an application protocol for accessing and maintaining distributed directory information services over an Internet Protocol (IP) network.
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How to configure Ubuntu as an LDAP client?
How to configure Ubuntu 12.04 as LDAP client with PAM modules?
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How to install ldapsearch on 16.04?
Coming from Trusty, I was used to ldapsearch but I don't have it installed on my new Xerus install:
The program 'ldapsearch' is currently not installed. You can install it by typing:
sudo apt ...
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'Failed to find session configuration default' (lightdm.log)
When trying to log onto a Kubuntu 14.04 LTS system. I noticed that all users would pass, when logging in via ssh, but graphical login (i.e. LightDM with the KDE greeter) would just be possible for ...
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How to Get a Windows Client to Authenticate against a Linux LDAP Server
How can we set Windows clients to authenticate against an LDAP Server running on Ubuntu?
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Error trying to get a non-existent value (appearance, password_hash) in LDAP
I have installed LDAP and phpLDAPadmin on my Ubuntu 14.04 (Trusty Tahr). It is working, and I'm able to access phpLDAPadmin GUI and am also able to create OU and groups using the GUI, but I'm not ...
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GUI tool to configure LDAP client
I am using this wiki to configure LDAP client on Ubuntu. Now I am looking for a GUI tool to configure LDAP client on Ubuntu. My colleagues often complains that configuring LDAP client on Ubuntu is ...
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How do I setup a LDAP-backed IRC server?
How can I configure an IRC server that is backed by LDAP?
Right now, I'm looking at making an IRC server that is backed by an OpenLDAP or 389 instance for user authentication.
Which IRCD should I be ...
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Why is my sssd.conf file missing after installing sssd?
I'm new to linux and decided to play around with building a server to learn more. I have been following the following guide: http://www.danbishop.org/2012/06/02/ubuntu-12-04-ultimate-server-guide/
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How can I increase the maximum number of simultaneous users to log in to a server?
I use ubuntu server 10.04 on a fairly good machine, with 2.40 dual-core processor and 2GB RAM.
My users login with ssh or samba. I have setup LDAP with PAM to sync user accounts between unix and ...
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slapd with back_sock does not create a socket
I have installed slapd on Ubuntu 12.04 and configured it with the following under /etc/ldap/slapd.conf:
modulepath /usr/lib/ldap
moduleload back_sock.la
database sock
socketpath /tmp/slapd.sock
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What happens to LDAP user authentication and NFS home directory shares when away from the network?
At present I have several machines on the home network which are a mixture of static desktops and laptops. Its getting unmanageable for me and impractical for all of them to have local home ...
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Cannot login into new install of OpenLDAP
In Oracle VM Virtualbox I installed a fresh new copy of Ubuntu Server 14.04.1 64 bit version, with OpenSSH installed as well.
Steps I done:
sudo apt-get install slapd ldap-utils
nano /etc/ldap/ldap....
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Going from a shared NFS /home to a full LDAP solution
I recently deployed about a dozen Ubuntu (Karmic) desktops in a small office. Everything was going great, but storage became an issue. I then moved /home to an NFS mount which solved the immediate ...
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Ubuntu 14.04 system hangs after installing pam module for ldap client with intel_rapl: no valid rapl domains found in package 0
I am running VMWare Workstation 10.0.2 on a Windows 8.1 host. I installed Ubuntu Server 14.04 as a virtual machine. Everything works fine. All updates, upgrades and dist-upgrades are installed. After ...
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16.04 server: enabling LDAP authentication causes systemd-logind to fail
I'm stumped here, sorry if I'm missing something obvious. I had a 16.04 server authenticating against LDAP that stopped working last time I ran updates, and I built a clean 16.04 server from scratch, ...
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How to allow LDAP user to change password?
I want to allow ldap user to change their password but how?
passwd? or ldappasswd? It won't work for me this time.
What will be the configurations for this in order the user will successfully change ...
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How do I set up Ubuntu Server 10.04 LTS to serve as a samba Primary Domain Controller uses pam modules to authenticate against an LDAP server?
I'd like to have a Samba server that appears as a Primary Domain Controller (PDC) to a bunch of windows lab computers. But instead of having the users have accounts with passwords stored on this Samba ...
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Missed libraries (lidn, lldap)
Command make induces error message
/usr/bin/ld: cannot find -lidn
/usr/bin/ld: cannot find -lldap
collect2: ld returned 1 exit status
make[2]: *** [../bin/SomeApp] Error 1
make[1]: *** [CMakeFiles/...
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SSH with LDAP authentication (ActiveDirectory) and ssh keys stored in AD
Environment : Ubuntu 14.04 & 16.04 Servers, Active Directory on Windows Server 2016, Ubuntu 14.04 & 16.04 clients. Ubuntu servers and clients are not on the domain.
Hello everyone,
I'm a ...
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How to configure Evolution to use DavMail's LDAP contacts?
My doubts are in the Authentication Section:
Authentication Method ?!
Session?
And I also don't know how to fill in the Details tab:
Search base ?
Search Scope ?
Search filter ?
How should I fill ...
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LDAP/Pam: No passwd entry for user while getent passwd shows all LDAP users
The LDAP authentication seems not working on my ubuntu 14.04.
getent passwd returns all the LDAP users, which means it is successfully connected to the LDAP server and see all the user information. ...
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MAAS Users and LDAP integration
I have 20+ users on my staff (which is constantly fluctuating) and it is a little inconvenient to constantly add/delete accounts in multiple places. Will MAAS eventually support LDAP so I only have to ...
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How to configure Master-Slave LDAP replication
How do I configure Master-Slave LDAP server on Ubuntu with session replication.
For example If and ldap client changes his password on the master server. I want the new password to be synchronized ...
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Where are passwords stored?
How do you figure out where are user's passwords stored, for users that can login? I know the system is using LDAP for users (username, home path, etc.), but it doesn't contain any kind of passwords. ...
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I have 10 PC's of which I want to set up a centralised ubuntu server
I am new to the Ubuntu Server scene and have been an Ubuntu fan for 2 years using it only as a standalone desktop client. I would like to use the server as a place to hold all roaming profiles and use ...
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16.04: How to specify a certificate authority with ldapsearch
I've been trying to debug LDAP connectivity, so I installed ldapsearch via sudo apt install ldap-utils. Here's the output of the command:
# ldapsearch -x -LLL -H ldaps://myip -d1 -ZZ
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Freeipa client on Ubuntu.
Does anyone have a good guide to get freeipa client installed and running on Ubuntu 13.04?
Just so I head off everyone up front, yes I know freeipa-client is a package, yes I know it has the ipa-...
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Changing LDAP password expiry time?
I am running LDAP Samba PDC on Ubuntu 10.04 server. By default the LDAP account pasword expires in 45 days. I want to change it.
I've tried hard to find this setting in the LDAP conf files but I ...
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Edubuntu Deployment and Active Directory Authentication
How I can deploy Edubuntu from one machine to many machines in the same domain and authenticate to Windows Active Directory?
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How to completely remove ldap and remove the directory tree
so I followed this guide:
https://help.ubuntu.com/11.04/serverguide/C/openldap-server.html
to install and configure ldap but then I discoverd both phpLDAPadmin and Luma and have decided to rebuild my ...
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LDAP server set-up
I'd like to set up LDAP to act as central authentication of 2 web applications running on the same server.
Whats the simplest step-by-step way to go about this from scratch?
In the long run I'd also ...
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How to check which package/process updated nsswitch?
I've experincing problems with my /etc/nsswitch.conf. I'm not longer able to use sudo as my personal user (ldap).
I've checked dpkg.log, and it seems it's been som upgrades on the packages which ...
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curl dynamic linking problem in 21.10
I recently got a Dell Precision 3450 with ubuntu 20.04, and upgraded to ubuntu 21.10 in two steps (20.04 -> 21.04 -> 21.10). This required upgrading the file /usr/lib/os-release by hand, as ...
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Ubuntu 12.04 LDAP client issue
I followed the guide described here configure LDAP, but I keep getting following error when running "getent passwd", is there any reason for that?
Error:
Jul 16 15:58:33 wso2-VirtualBox getent: ...
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'Permission denied' when running snap applications on Ubuntu 16.04 as a LDAP user
Is it possible to run snap applications on Ubuntu 16.04 as a LDAP user?
I always get 'permission denied' and I don't know what to do.
$ sudo snap install postman
postman 6.7.1 from Postman, Inc. (...
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18.04 KDE screenlocker showing full username for Local Users, but not for remote (LDAP authenticated) users
I've got an issue where my KDE screenlocker will not show the full username for the logged in user (for this session) if that user is LDAP authenticated.
This means that when the screen is locked, you ...
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What is the replacement tool for auth-client-config in 20.04
I am following the instructions to setup LDAP authentication for an Ubuntu Focal (20.04) client.
One of the steps is to execute the command sudo auth-client-config -t nss -p lac_ldap. Supposedly this ...
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How to setup Strongswan to auth to LDAP?
I'm trying to create an L2TP/IPSEC VPN server in 20.04 that uses LDAP for user authentication.
I'm assuming Strongswan does this.
Where, in Strongswan or other configs would I add the LDAP server info?...
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/etc/skel doesn't work with xenial
We have a script which works perfectly with Xubuntu 14.04 and an Ubuntu Server with ldap : https://github.com/dane-lyon/clients-linux-scribe/blob/master/ubuntu-et-variantes-integrdom.sh
We use /etc/...
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How can I use ldap authentication with full disk encryption?
I'm evaluating (x)ubuntu client for my companies software developer. We must use full disk encryption because of software, which doesn't save their files in /home (like databases).
The company uses "...
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How to resolve thin client log on freezing using LDAP + LTSP 12.04?
On Ubuntu 12.04 I have some kind of problem with LTSP and LDAP. Sometimes I can log to the server, but sometimes I can't (window freezes on LDM) log in from the thin client. Everything is OK when I ...
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How to fix sudo: setreuid(ROOT_UID, user_uid): Operation not permitted error?
I am using LDAP authentication on my Ubuntu 11.10 server. I installed libpam-ldap, and configured things accordingly. It works great, except that I get this error every once in a while when I try to ...
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Changing LDAP password from CLI
First of all, I'm a beginner with LDAP. I use it on my workstation to emulate a production environment for web application I'm working on. So I'm not logged through LDAP and the users there are ...
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pam_systemd delays SSH login - required?
On our Saucy servers (13.10) we are seeing long delays when logging into the systems via SSH.
I figured out it is related to the line
session optional pam_systemd.so
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ldap client causes boot to be very slow on 13.10, causes hang on 14.04
I have successfully configured ubuntu as an ldap client following the howtos found on this site. i do the following.
1) apt-get install libpam-ldap nscd
2) configure ldap-auth-config
3) change /etc/...
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"ldap_add: Naming violation (64)" error when configuring OpenLDAP
I am following the Ubuntu server guide to configure OpenLDAP on an Ubuntu 10.04 server, but can not get it to work.
When I try to use sudo ldapadd -x -D cn=admin,dc=don,dc=com -W -f frontend.ldif I'm ...
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Why are my LDAP logins slow?
I have been running this server with LDAP for about 6 months. The logins have always been fast. However, starting this week logins are taking 1-2 minutes to complete. This include ssh, sudo su, and ...
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How to configure pam.d files for ldap over ssh on 12.04?
I'm trying to set up an Ubuntu 12.04 server so that users with a valid account in a remote ldap server can login to the ubuntu server.
I've followed this guide closely: http://wiki.linuxquestions.org/...
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gnome-keyring use unsafe storage for all users
I'm running a large number of Ubuntu desktops for a school. We use ldap and somehow gnome-keyring always gets out of sync and starts prompting for passwords. Eventually it seems to sync again, but I ...
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What are the alternatives for setting up a common directory and accounts?
We have a network of 12 machines and one server at the moment connected by a gigabit switch in a single room. We want every user to be able to log in and use their account on any machine, as well as ...
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